Copper Mountain College's Marine Base Programs office will be closed from July 1 through July 3 to move its office into a new facility. If you have any questions during the closure, call the Marine Base at 760-830-6133 or the Main Campus at…
Interpreters perform a vital function when the United States is in a foreign country where not many of the residents speak English. Getting the interpreters to where they're needed is the job of a Marine Lance Corporal with Regimental…
The Marine Corps is bracing to lose another 8,000 active-duty Marines on top of what already had been planned as it faces deep, federally mandated budget cuts. Marine Commandant General Jim Amos said, during a breakfast with reporters in…
The guardian angel of Gary Vogen of Twentynine Palms was definitely on duty last week. Vogen, a self-described heavy equipment aficionado, had gone to a wash near the 74800 block of Saddle Horn Road in Twentynine Palms about 2 p.m. Monday, June…
Football coaches and players from the College of the Desert will hold a football camp for youth ages 6 to 18 aboard the Marine Corps Base. The camp will be held 4:30 to 8:30 Friday (June 14) and 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 Saturday (June 15). This camp…
The mission of most Marines is to support those Marines who are those on the front lines. Marines and their equipment wouldn't be able to get to where they need to be without motor transport operators, who not only drive the vehicles, but…
Two members of Congress, both war veterans, convinced the House Armed Services Committee yesterday that the services should all have the same camouflage patterns for uniforms rather than each having its own. Rep. Bill Enyart, a retired major…
Not every person who joins the Marine Corps intends to make it a career. Some use it as a stepping stone to another career. Managing editor Tami Roleff talked last week with a Marine deployed with Regimental Combat Team-7 to Afghanistan who…
It's a brave Marine who admits he's not perfect. Corporal Luke Frank, an admin clerk with Regimental Combat Team-7, currently deployed to Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan, offered up an unusual most memorable moment to managing editor…
Federal employees received their furlough notices yesterday. Due to the budget sequestration, federal employees will be forced to take off one day a week without pay starting July 8 through September 30. In addition, the Twentynine Palms Marine…
The CHP has released the cause of a crash between a military Humvee and a civilian car that killed a Yucca Valley woman April 19. Investigators say that Juan Lira, 19, an active-duty Marine, was driving a Humvee in a military convoy eastbound on…
The Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms was named Monday as the best base to live, work, and play in the Marine Corps. For the fifth time, and for an unprecedented fourth consecutive year, the Combat Center was awarded the…
Hoping to see a different part of the world than Afghanistan and Iraq, Sergeant Philip Noble, a Marine with Regimental Combat Team-7 from Twentynine Palms, hopes to move out of the infantry and into the field of counter-intelligence. Sergeant…
In our continuing series of interviews with Marines stationed in Afghanistan, managing editor Tami Roleff talked recently with Corporal Damian Davis, an embarkation specialist with Regimental Combat Team-7, about deployments, family, and the…
A fact of life for Marines is that they will be sent on a deployment overseas. Many men and women join the Marine Corps because they WANT to be deployed, and are excited about the opportunities deployments offer. Most deployments are six to…
The Combat Center will host this week the Experimental Forward Operating Base, or ExFOB, the Marine Corps' innovative process to identify and evaluate energy-efficient technologies. Marines in Afghanistan are using new technologies that…
On Saturday, November 23, Dance Mojave is hosting a fundraising event to help…
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